New Music

INTERVIEW: Spring King

Manchester’s Spring King have had an eventful few weeks: heading stateside for SXSW, touring with Courtney Barnett and making it onto Radio 1 with the big boys. In addition to this exciting period for the band, April will also see…

Ones To Watch: Queen Kwong

Backed by a band made up of Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland, former Marilyn Manson bassist Fred Sablan and Awol Nation drummer Hayden Scott, LA-based Queen Kwong, aka Carré Callaway, are blowing minds – and perhaps bursting eardrums – with…

Introducing Interview: Adam Cleaver

About to release new single, ‘The Salt Mine’, London-based singer-songwriter Adam Cleaver delivers emotive folk-filled ditties with a unique, stirring power. With his second EP due for release in Autumn, we caught up with Cleaver to find out more. For…

Introducing Interview: BRONCHO

With two successful albums under their sleeves, having featured on the soundtrack to the popular HBO series Girls, and with plenty of airplay over here on 6Music, things are looking pretty great for Oklahoma band BRONCHO right now. Currently on a…

New Track: Strange Wilds – ‘Pronoia’

After a West Coast tour of America secured them a record deal with industry giants Sub Pop, Washington-based grunge rock band Strange Wilds have released ‘Pronoia’, taken from their debut album Subjective Concepts. Upon initially hearing the track I concluded…

Discovery of the Week: King of Cats

Music is a strange thing. The music industry will tell you that to get somewhere you’ve got to have the “right look” or the “perfect voice”. We all know that’s not what it’s about, obviously, it’s about the music. It’s…

LIVE: BRONCHO – Oval Space, London 01.05.15

For me, US Indie band BRONCHO are one of those bands that I sometimes stumble across while browsing YouTube playlists, and for the next month or so their songs get played so much on my phone that it nearly catches…

New Track: Manatee – ‘Logistics’

Fleet based quartet, Manatee, are bouncing onto the scene with their debut indie-pop track, ‘Logistics’. In the winter of 2013 the band formed, consisting of Joe Alexander (rhythm guitarist/lead vocalist), Calum Ellison (lead guitarist), Sophie Wickham (bass) and Zach Boakes…

ALBUM: Jenny Lysander ‘Northern Folk’

Rating: Only few would disagree with the absolute satisfaction the discovery of a deliciously folky singer can bring. Every velvety, warming syllable wraps around the soul like an angelic hug. This is proven on an occasional basis when I am…

Tracks Of The Week, 01.05.15

Creating unique, Avant Garde pop, Kassia Zermon – aka Bunty – is here to greet us with her ‘Precious Sound’. With all the soulfulness of the likes of Lauryn Hill, combined with with the experimental power of Bjork, Bunty’s distinctive…